Description
Fine in a Near-Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Square quarto, ~8 ¼” w x 8 ¼” h, 51 pp. Light-blue boards with title plate set to front, in a matching unclipped jacket with very light handling and rubbing at spine edges. A well-preserved, clean copy. This edition catalog accompanied the publication of a suite of twenty etchings with aquatint by David Hockney, drawn in 1976–77; it contains reproductions of the etchings as well as the full text of Stevens’ poem. Typeset in 11pt Electra Linotype, printed in England on Abbey Mills laid paper by The Scolar Press. A beautifully made book.
"I read Wallace Stevens’ poem in the summer of 1976. The etchings themselves were not conceived as literal illustrations of the poem but as an interpretation of its themes in visual terms. Like the poem, they are about transformations within art as well as the relation between reality and the imagination, so these are pictures and different styles of representation juxtaposed and reflected and dissolved within the same frame." –David Hockney
